action, could I show the face of you to my Officers (soldiers) and
other servants?--The one way of repairing all this is, That you
seek, regardless of your very life in comparison, to make the
fault good again!' At which words the Crown-Prince mournfully
threw himself at his Royal Majesty's feet; begging to be put upon
the hardest proofs: He would endure all things, so as to recover
his Majesty's grace and esteem.

"Whereupon the King asked him: 'Was it thou that temptedst Katte;
or did Katte tempt thee?' The Crown-Prince without hesitation
answered, 'I tempted him.'--'I am glad to hear the truth from you,
at any rate.'"

The Dialogue now branches out, into complex general form; out of
which, intent upon abridging, we gather the following points.
King LOQUITUR:--

"How do you like your Custrin life? Still as much aversion to
Wusterhausen, and to wearing your shroud [STERBEKITTEL, name for
the tight uniform you would now be so glad of, and think quite
other than a shroud!] as you called it?" Prince's answer wanting.
--"Likely enough my company does not suit you: I have no French
manners, and cannot bring out BON-MOTS in the PETIT-MAITRE way;
and truly regard all that as a thing to be flung to the dogs.
I am a German Prince, and mean to live and die in that character.
But you can now say what you have got by your caprices and
obstinate heart; hating everything that I liked; and if I
distinguished any one, despising him! If an Officer was put in
arrest, you took to lamenting about him. Your real friends, who
intended your good, you hated and calumniated; those that